Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres by Kelefa Sanneh
45.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography
A rigorous and celebratory journey through the history of pop music, from the former New York Times music critic. From his own adolescence, when his allegiance was to punk rock, to his work as one of the essential voices of our time on music and culture at the New York Times and the New Yorker, Kelefa S ...Show more
Coltrane - The Story of a Sound by Ben Ratliff
25.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography | Series: Faber Greatest Hits Ser.
A new edition as part of the Faber Greatest Hits - books that have taken writing about music in new and exciting directions for the twenty-first century. No other jazz musician has proved so inspirational and so fascinating as Coltrane. Ben Ratliff, jazz critic for the New York Times, has written the fi ...Show more
Living on a Thin Line by Dave Davies
38.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography
The all new, must-read memoir by legendary Kinks guitarist Dave Davies Dave Davies is the co-founder and lead guitarist of epoch-defining band the Kinks, a group with fifty million record sales to their name. In his autobiography, Davies revisits the glory days of the band that spawned so much extraord ...Show more
Vinyl Me Please List 100 Albums You Need on Vinyl and Why by Please Vinyl Me Staff
30.00 NZD
Category: Music
Putting the style in your stylus, The Vinyl List is more than your average book of music recommendations. Brought to you by the vinyl subscription club, Vinyl Me, Please - 'the best damn record club there is'* - The Vinyl List is a lively, visually handsome guide to the 100 albums you need to own on vin ...Show more
Keith Urban: His amazing journey from daydreamer to superstar by Jeff Apter
37.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography
A comprehensive biography that documents how Keith Urban lived out his childhood dream - and the price he's had to pay to reach the top. Keith Urban came from humble origins. Born in New Zealand and raised in outer Brisbane, his father worked at the local tip; Keith was a high school dropout. When he w ...Show more
For the Love of Music: A Conductor's Guide to the Art of Listening by John Mauceri
30.00 NZD
Category: Music
Why do so many of us listen to classical music, and how can you get the most from listening to it?In this unpretentious and instructive book, internationally celebrated conductor and teacher John Mauceri brings to bear his lifetime of experience and profound knowledge. A protégé of Leonard Bernstein and ...Show more
Goodbye Russia: Rachmaninoff in Exile by Fiona Maddocks
55.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography
The moving story of Rachmaninoff's years in exile and the composition of his last great work, against a cataclysmic backdrop of two world wars and personal tragedy.
Fly Away Paul: How Paul McCartney survived the Beatles and found his Wings by Lesley-Ann Jones
40.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography
No comprehensive biography of the time Paul McCartney spent with Wings has ever been published. A period often dismissed as McCartney's 'missing' years, in fact the band lasted for a decade: two years longer than the Beatles, and wielded such impact and influence that they at one point achieved the stat ...Show more
Beatles: In Pictures by AMMONITE PRESS
30.00 NZD
Category: Gift | Series: In Pictures Ser.
The Beatles: In Pictures takes a nostalgic look at the world's most famous pop group, presenting 300 photographs from the Mirrorpix archives.The best-selling band in history, with sales of over a billion, The Beatles - John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr - have had more number-o ...Show more
Guitar Family Trees: The History of the World's Most Iconic Guitars by Terry Burrows
45.00 NZD
Category: Music - Instruments
Discover the rich history behind the world's favorite musical instrument in Guitar Family Trees. This striking visual catalog charts the histories of the most prominent and sought after guitars and their manufacturers, including such household names as Gibson, Martin, Rickenbacker, and Fender. From the ...Show more
Eagles - Dark Desert Highway by Mick Wall
30.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography
'This could be heaven or this could be hell...' So sings Don Henley on their biggest hit, 'Hotel California', and it is true that the Eagles story was one that blurred the ultimate Hollywood highs and subterranean LA lows beyond recognition.The band that embodied the American dream with globe-straddlin ...Show more
The Double Life of Bob Dylan: Vol. 1 - A Restless Hungry Feeling, 1941-1966 by Clinton Heylin
50.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography
The definitive biography of one contemporary culture's most iconic and mysterious figures - musical revolutionary, Nobel Prize-winner, chart-topping recording artist. 'The definitive, scrupulously researched biography of a life steeped in mystery' Observer. The definitive biography of one contemporary ...Show more